The live event has reached maximum capacity, but everyone can watch the post-show recording on our YouTube Channel. The recording will be available beginning April 2 and we will be sure to share the link on Facebook, too!

"The women in these portraits were some of the first dykes I ever laid eyes on, and the book feels like a lost family album." --Alison Bechdel

In 1979, JEB self-published her first book, Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians. In a work that was revolutionary for its era, JEB made photographs of lesbians from different ages and backgrounds in their everyday lives--working, playing, raising families, and striving to remake their worlds. The photographs were accompanied by writings from acclaimed authors including Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Joan Nestle, and others.

Please join us in celebrating the new poetry collection Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018  by Daniel Borzutzky. For this virtual event, Borzutzky will be joined by Ted Mathys. 

In Written after a Massacre, Daniel Borzutzky rages against the military industrial complex that profits from violence, against the unfair policing of certain kinds of bodies, against xenophobia passing for immigration policy.

This event is also a fundraiser! Preorder BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN from W&CF and10% of profits will be donated to Deborah's Place.

The two authors will also explore how themes of motherhood, racial division, and family emerge in Johnson's recent debut, The Kindest Lie.

1925: Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Café is the ritziest black-and-tan club in town. Honoree Dalcour is a sharecropper’s daughter, willing to work hard and dance every night on her way to the top.

Please join us for a celebration of Chekwube Danladi's Semiotics. Natalie Eilbert will be reading with Danladi.

Chekwube Danladi is the author of Semiotics (Georgia, 2020), selected by Evie Shockley as the winner of the 2019 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. 

Douglas Kearney is a poet, performer, and librettist who has published seven books that bridge various thematic concerns, including politics, African-American culture, masks, the Trickster figure, and contemporary music. His most recent collection, SHO, aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. 

Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes was once sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother’s tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio—even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea of language around her, written and spoken, English and Spanish, bodies and books, Western art and sacred altars. 

If you are an artist, you need to make your art. That's not an overstatement—it's a fact. If you stop doing your creative work, your quality of life is diminished. But what do you do when life gets in the way? In this down-to-earth handbook, experienced artist coach Beth Pickens offers practical advice for developing a lasting and meaningful artistic practice in the face of life's inevitable obstacles and distractions.

Support independent bookstores nationwide in this annual celebration! This year, in-store we will have exclusive merch and special giveaways for kids and adults. On the corner outside the bookstore (weather permitting), we'll have a literary craft table and story time! Follow us on Instagram (@wcfbook) and Facebook to hear about special promotions and events as they are announced.

Feminist Book Group is back! Our first meeting will be April 11, 2021 on Zoom!

Virtual Poetry Reading

Virtual Author Reading

in conversation

with Megan Stielstra

Virtual Reading featuring:

Heather Corinna in conversation with

Virtual Book Launch

Andersonville & Edgewater neighbors, please take THIS SURVEY to help the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce better understand how comfortable you are with various aspects of reopening throughout the neighborhood.

Good news! Our greeting cards (including Easter & Mother's Day cards) are now available to order through our online store! *All cards just $5*